In an uncertain technological future, it's nice to know we can depend on one thing: that the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will always be into some
seriously heavy shit. Responsible for such sinister-sounding past endeavors as the Sea Shadow and the MQ-1 Predator, DARPA permanently resides on the cutting edge.

Looking like a terrible hybrid between a Chinese dumpling and some
sort of anemic beating heart, here's the military's latest god-mocking
high-tech nightmare fuel. (And we thought the A-bomb was scary stuff.) Meet ChemBot, the latest brainchild of Bedford-based company iRobot (creator of household slave-droids Roomba and Scooba, which, incidentally, also give us a serious case of the heebie-jeebies).

Boston PhoenixHorro-bots: The Next FrontierPublished 10/20/2009 by webteam
Looking like a terrible hybrid between a Chinese dumpling and some sort of anemic beating heart, here's the military's latest god-mocking high-tech nightmare fuel. (And...